I am confused at what I should be doing about my 22 month old son who wakes up several times at night. He has a consistent bedtime routine of books, song, and bed time. I put him to bed at around 8:00 and he goes to bed without any fuss. Then he wakes up crying for "mama"! I've tried rocking him, just patting his back and saying it's bed time, and some of cry it out which didn't work! He doesn't have a fever and seems like all he wants is attention. Any other advice or ideas that worked for you would be helpful! Thanks.
A.
A.,
Is your son possibly getting some teeth? He sounds like my daughter who is a great sleeper unless she is getting teeth! Then she wakes up screaming for mommy.
Best of luck.
i like what supernanny jojo does. she takes the child or puts them back into bed first time only say it is bedtime, then the rest of the times which there can be several as you know- dont say ANYTHING. put the child into bed and leave the room
Well, I don't really have any advise, because I am going through the same thing with my 20 month old daughter. In fact, she had me up almost 2 hours during the night last night. She is fine as long as she is in my arms. I rock her, and she falls asleep, but as soon as I lay her back down, she sits up crying. It's good to know that other kids are doing the same thing, because everyone keeps telling me that she should be sleeping through the night. I have only had a handfull of full nights sleep since she has been born. She is teething, so maybe that's all it is for her and your son, too. Good luck, I've tried everything, too.
Kids around that age get a set of mollars and also start another stage of separation enxiety, so that could be it. Our son is 21 months and started to wake up at night too. We do not pick him up though. He cries only for couple min before going back to sleep .Does your son watch TV before going to bed???I have heard it can affect sleep too.
Hi A.,
Well, I went through this exact same thing. the first few nights she cried and I went in there and just sat by her crib to comfort her, this worked just fine.....until she wanted more . after a few nights of this, she decided she wanted to be picked up when she cried, mommy sitting there just wasnt good enough anymore. so i had no choice but to go in my daughters room and pick her up to stop her from crying, because my hubby goes to work early. anyway, this lasted about 3 nights......3 nights of rocking, singing, patting, babying if ya ask me ,for hours, and she had slept through the night since 8 weeks. (she was about a year old at this point by the way). I thought maybe it was teeth, but more, that she just wanted to see how much she could get out of mommy, she was definately testing me. So once the weekend came, I put orajel on her gums, did our same routine, and once I layed her down she, of course started screaming. So I told her goodnight and left the room. She cried for about 45 minutes or so, and then fell asleep, this happened a couple of times through the night, but I never went in there. So, this went on for two nights, and Im telling you, she must have thought hard about it, 'hey, mommy's not coming, so why waste my breath', kind of thing. and everyting went back to normal. Crying it out worked with my daughter, and remember, crying is not going to hurt them. I hope this helps you....Good Luck.
